Resources Edmodo
Edmodo is a safe site for teachers and students to share ideas, collaborate, communicate and integrate technology into their every day education. It is also a great site for teachers to share ideas with fellow colleagues and use each other as resources.
Classzone.com is a website set up by the textbook publisher McDougal Litell of the textbook Avancemos that gives students the opportunity to find their textbook and it takes them to several activities to practice their Spanish. The classzone.com home page allows you to choose your subject and state and it takes you to the available texts for that region. In Spanish it allows the students to do extra practice in areas where they may still not feel comfortable with. They have the opportunity to go through animated grammar explanations, work on culture through webquests, review vocabulary online through flashcards and audio, practice grammar through the grammar tutor, work on verb conjugations and also audio files can be downloaded.
Quizlet is a site that allows students to work on review studying materials for any subject. It has a series of activities such as : flashcards, speller, learn mode, test, scatter (race against the clock) and space race. The last two activities are an interactive way for students to study or review material in a video game type setup. It allows for active competition between students to see who gets the higher score.
Sample study set:
Skype is an online collaboration tool which allows free phone calls, as well as video calls, to any country in the world. It is a great way to invite the world into your classroom, and encourage authentic learning via experts speaking directly to your students. It can bring students in rural and isolated areas into contact with teachers and students in other parts of the world. The best part is, it is an easy download, and then it is free to use.
The Safe Social Learning Network ePals is an education technology company and the leading provider of safe social learning networks (SLN). Focused on the K-12 market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school administrators, teachers, students and parents worldwide a safe and secure platform for building educational communities, providing quality digital content and facilitating collaboration for effective 21st century learning. ePals' award-winning products include: ePals Global Community; SchoolMail®365; LearningSpace®; In2Books®, a common core eMentoring program that builds reading, writing and critical thinking skills; and popular children's educational publishing brands including Cricket® and Cobblestone®. ePals serves approximately 800,000 educators and reaches millions of teachers, students and parents in approximately 200 countries and territories. The global scale of ePals' network offers teachers, students and parents unprecedented ability to facilitate teaching and student learning by sharing projects and best practices, connecting with other classrooms and learners around the corner and around the globe, and accessing content and lesson plans designed for an increasingly digital and networked world. Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
studyspanish.com was launched in 1998 and it was a pioneer in educational websites. Over the years, we have provided free web-based services to millions of Spanish students and teachers.
Our online services and CD course have helped thousands of serious students learn to speak Spanish fluently. As a true 21st century company, we do not suffer from geographic constraints. Our extensive network of experts and specialists extends across the globe.
I have used studyspanish.com extensively in my classes to help students understand especially the grammar portion of studying Spanish. It gives students an explanation of the particular grammar point in English and then examples of the same in Spanish. There are sample tests that students can take for extra reinforcement and they get immediate feedback on how they did. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Its mission is to make the world more open and connected. A teacher can create a page to share with students in which they can share their ideas. It becomes very hard sometimes to call on every student to participate in class however students can post their responses on the class's page and this way everyone has an opportunity to participate.
Puzzlemakeris a free puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. One create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists. Puzzlemaker is a component of Discovery Education. Discovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large and small, rural and suburban and everything in between. TeacherTube ‘s goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. It’s more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. TeacherTube community members are a major part of the evolution of the site. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos.
Edmodo
Edmodo is a safe site for teachers and students to share ideas, collaborate, communicate and integrate technology into their every day education. It is also a great site for teachers to share ideas with fellow colleagues and use each other as resources.
Example of a community page for World Language teachers:
http://www.edmodo.com/community/world-languages
http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/avancemos_3/book_home.htm?state=NJ
Classzone.com is a website set up by the textbook publisher McDougal Litell of the textbook Avancemos that gives students the opportunity to find their textbook and it takes them to several activities to practice their Spanish. The classzone.com home page allows you to choose your subject and state and it takes you to the available texts for that region. In Spanish it allows the students to do extra practice in areas where they may still not feel comfortable with. They have the opportunity to go through animated grammar explanations, work on culture through webquests, review vocabulary online through flashcards and audio, practice grammar through the grammar tutor, work on verb conjugations and also audio files can be downloaded.
Sample of what students have to choose from:
http://quizlet.com/
Quizlet is a site that allows students to work on review studying materials for any subject. It has a series of activities such as : flashcards, speller, learn mode, test, scatter (race against the clock) and space race. The last two activities are an interactive way for students to study or review material in a video game type setup. It allows for active competition between students to see who gets the higher score.
Sample study set:
Skype is an online collaboration tool which allows free phone calls, as well as video calls, to any country in the world. It is a great way to invite the world into your classroom, and encourage authentic learning via experts speaking directly to your students. It can bring students in rural and isolated areas into contact with teachers and students in other parts of the world. The best part is, it is an easy download, and then it is free to use.
The Safe Social Learning Network
ePals is an education technology company and the leading provider of safe social learning networks (SLN). Focused on the K-12 market, ePals offers elementary and secondary school administrators, teachers, students and parents worldwide a safe and secure platform for building educational communities, providing quality digital content and facilitating collaboration for effective 21st century learning. ePals' award-winning products include: ePals Global Community; SchoolMail®365; LearningSpace®; In2Books®, a common core eMentoring program that builds reading, writing and critical thinking skills; and popular children's educational publishing brands including Cricket® and Cobblestone®. ePals serves approximately 800,000 educators and reaches millions of teachers, students and parents in approximately 200 countries and territories. The global scale of ePals' network offers teachers, students and parents unprecedented ability to facilitate teaching and student learning by sharing projects and best practices, connecting with other classrooms and learners around the corner and around the globe, and accessing content and lesson plans designed for an increasingly digital and networked world.
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
studyspanish.com was launched in 1998 and it was a pioneer in educational websites. Over the years, we have provided free web-based services to millions of Spanish students and teachers.
Our online services and CD course have helped thousands of serious students learn to speak Spanish fluently. As a true 21st century company, we do not suffer from geographic constraints. Our extensive network of experts and specialists extends across the globe.
I have used studyspanish.com extensively in my classes to help students understand especially the grammar portion of studying Spanish. It gives students an explanation of the particular grammar point in English and then examples of the same in Spanish. There are sample tests that students can take for extra reinforcement and they get immediate feedback on how they did.
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Its mission is to make the world more open and connected. A teacher can create a page to share with students in which they can share their ideas. It becomes very hard sometimes to call on every student to participate in class however students can post their responses on the class's page and this way everyone has an opportunity to participate.
Puzzlemakeris a free puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. One create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists. Puzzlemaker is a component of Discovery Education. Discovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large and small, rural and suburban and everything in between.
TeacherTube ‘s goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. It’s more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. TeacherTube community members are a major part of the evolution of the site. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos.